Tag Archives: Gecko

Gecko Summer 2012

In this issue:

  • Coming Events
  • 18th Annual Bushcare ‘Thank You’ BBQ Invitation
  • The Mystery of the Acetone Smell
  • 2011 Connected Waters Symposium – Water Conservation in Action
  • Bushtracks
  • Native Vegetation Survey
  • How to Escape the Tyranny of your Lawn
  • The Suburbanites and their Lawns
  • Tree of Heaven
  • Changing Landscapes and Evolving Plants of the Blue Mountains
  • Bush Regeneration Courses

Gecko_Summer_2012 PDF file – 3.8 MB

Gecko Spring 2011

In this issue:

  • Coming Events
  • Native Flora Identification for Bushcare Groups
  • Weeding Aids
  • Recruiting and Keeping Members
  • Connected Waters Symposium
  • Relocating A Possum From Your Roof
  • A Busy Bushcare Year – 2009/2010
  • Significant Places in Hawkesbury-Nepean Catchmen
  • tWaste & Resources Reference Group

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Gecko Winter 2011

In this issue:

  • WEEDS at Local Markets
  • NINOX STRENUA – Sydney’s Powerful Owl
  • SCIENCE WEEK SEMINARS by National Parks and Wildlife Service
  • Lower Mountains SHALE FORESTS field days
  • Which Creek would you Sacrifice?
  • MYRTLE RUST UPDATE – HOW CAN YOU HELP
  • Invitation to Bushcare Coordinators
  • The 2011 Bushcare Picnic report
  • EASTERN WATER DRAGONS In YOUR BACKYARD

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Gecko Autumn 2011

In this issue:

  • Bushcare/Landcare BBQ Invitation
  • Coming Events
  • The World of Macrofungi – Mushrooms
  • 2010 Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Survey Report now available
  • Capertee Valley Tree Planting 7-8 May
  • An Introduction to Eucalyptus
  • Eucalyptus Workshop with Van Klaphake
  • Bushcare/Landcare Training Guide Reviewed

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Gecko Winter 2010

In this issue:

  • Learn to Identify and Manager Garden Weeds
  • Volunteer Opportunity for Tool Maintenance
  • Soft Engineering and Bushcare
  • ‘Save Our Swamps’ Project wins National Innovation Award
  • Friends of the Colo Inc – program for September-November 2010
  • Eco Choices Program
  • 2010 Annual Bushcare Picnic Report and Awards
  • The Wattle from Snowy River jumps a few fences

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Gecko Autumn 2010

In this issue:

  • Invitation to Bushcare Picnic
  • Joyce Brister Remembered
  • Winter Reconnect to Country Programme
  • Introducing new Bushcare Workers – Peter Christmas and Monica Nugent
  • Planting Weekend in Capertee
  • The Truth about Coreopsis
  • Peter Andrews Landscaping Debate
  • A Happy Eastern Long Necked Turtle
  • Spotted Tail Quoll

Gecko_Autumn_2010 PDF file – 1,110 KB

Gecko Summer 2010

In this issue:

  • Weed or Native? Telling the difference
  • Peter Andrews book on landscape management
  • Nathan Summers says Farewell
  • Photographic Exhibition at the Bushcare Picnic
  • Plants for Carbon Offsets
  • Blue Mountains’ first feral clematis
  • Swamp Care Field Days
  • Joan Gahl – Blue Mountains 2010 Citizen of the Year
  • ClimateWatch: Your chance to contribute to climate science
  • Joan Evelyn Storey
  • Details of TAFE Environment Courses for 2010

Gecko_Summer_2010 PDF file – 1,272 KB

Gecko Spring 2009

In this issue:

  • Mt Wilson Bushcare Group Celebrate their 10th Anniversary
  • Beware! Jumping Ants
  • Are you ever tempted to wear your tutu to Bushcare?
  • Introducing Erin Hall, the new Bushcare Officer
  • Conservation Society Plant Study Group Open to New Members
  • BMCC Environmental Directory – October 2009
  • How About Some Extreme Weeding – with Remote Bushcare?
  • Workshops on Your Local Vegetation Communities
  • Reconnecting to Country – Conversations with Bushcare
  • Gecko play equipment installed in Else-Mitchell Park, Springwood

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Gecko Winter 2009

In this issue:

  • Working with Blue Mountains Bushcare Network
  • Reconnecting to Country – Conversations with Bushcare
  • Bushcare ‘Thank You’ BBQ – Awards and Pictures
  • Bye Bye to Trish Kidd
  • Swampcare Update
  • Vegetation Mapping
  • Vale Terry Vaughan
  • Bushcare Hat Goes Internationa
  • lPlant Identification Workshops

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